Chris Alcock

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Small-space gardening expert Isabelle Palmer shares her guidelines for growing the best plants indoors.<p>If bringing some much-needed green into your home has been a challenge, follow these guidelines from indoor-gardening expert and Isabelle Palmer, whose recent book <i>The House Gardener</i> offers …

When Fiat introduced the 500 Abarth—complete with a muffler-full-of-hammer-wielding-bees exhaust note—there was one way to get from one gear to another, and that was to move the lever yourself. Some might say it’s the <i>only</i> way to drive a diminutive European hatchback. We’d gladly agree with those …

A brother and sister with an extremely rare genetic condition have a stunning ability to fight off viruses — an ability that could lead to a new family of antiviral drugs.<p>Their bodies stop viruses from building a protective shell, which leaves viruses "naked" and vulnerable, researchers report in …

Microscope reveals how amoeba that kills 70,000 people a year works, giving clues to how other infections could operate<p>The gruesome means by which a parasite wreaks havoc in the human body has been laid bare for the first time by researchers who filmed the bug in action at the end of a …

Scientists with the United States Navy say they have successfully developed a way to convert seawater into jet fuel, calling it a potentially revolutionary advancement.<p>Researchers at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) developed technology to extract carbon dioxide from seawater while …

Last year we learned that the popular TellTale game <i>The Walking Dead</i> was on its way to the Android-based Ouya, marking the first time the game had ever graced an Android device. At the time we wondered whether or not the game would eventually make its way to other Android devices as well. Today we …

After Samsung unveiled the latest members of the Gear family at MWC, there seemed to be a large number of folks that genuinely were more interested in the looks and even feature set of the Gear Fit over the Gear 2 or the Gear 2 Neo.<p>Part of the appeal of the Fit is that it has a much more attractive …

The intense and addictive, iOS-exclusive action game Impossible Road has finally arrived on Android. The game hit the Google Play Store last Monday and can be bought for $1.99.<p>Impossible Road involves guiding a white ball, also known as “the Vessel,” along a blue, descending, infinite, and winding …

HTC has steadily been rolling out its Android 4.4.2 KitKat update to original HTC One (M7) over the past month or so, but it looks like the update may have brought an issue or two along with it.<p>Some users have been reporting that stereo audio isn’t working correctly when recording video via the HTC …

Roughly a year ago, Dropbox acquired popular iOS email client Mailbox for $100 million. Now after all this time, Android users can finally get their hands on the Mailbox app as well!<p>Just like the iOS version, Mailbox’s biggest features are its unified inbox that lets all your mail come into one …

It’s a pretty big day for the folks over at Dropbox. First, they introduced both the desktop and Android versions of their popular Mailbox app, and now they are also bringing us yet another new app called Carousel, this time for archiving videos and images.<p>Dropbox has had the ability to instantly …

The Hillsborough disaster will be remembered in a new musical symphony, composed by Michael Nyman, to be performed at Liverpool Cathedral<p>Michael Nyman has composed a Hillsborough memorial symphony which will have its world premiere in Liverpool.<p>The hour-long work, Symphony No 11: Hillsborough …

Each of the Hawaiian islands are or once were active volcanoes, springing forth from a hotspot in the middle of the Pacific Plate. Kilauea, one of five active volcanoes in Hawaii, has erupted continuously, more or less, since it formed some 300,000 to 600,000 years ago. It might be the world’s most …

Don’t waste precious travel time dragging your flip-flopped feet to the beach. We’ve rounded up ten places to stay on some of the world’s most beautiful islands – and they’re all a stone’s throw from the beach. Best of all, you don’t need to sell your granny to enjoy an island getaway, we’ve picked …

Paranoia strikes most smartphone owners when their battery runs low. What caused that? Of course it can be a myriad of factors, but for iPhone owners a major culprit has emerged which will affect almost everyone: Facebook. That’s the bad news. The good news is it can be easily fixed.<p>For Facebook, a …